Frodov
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Another bountiful harvest thanks to White’s Metal Detectors.
Call it what you will, “treasure hunting”, “Coin Shooting”, “Dirt Fishing”, “Killing Time” or “Metal Detecting” and perhaps, now, “Harvesting”. Of all the hobbies I’ve ever had in my life none have been so addictive or profitable as this one. While I still consider myself somewhat of a novice as far as metal detecting goes, even after over three years of experience now under my .. uh.. coil, I’d like to think that getting better at it. Getting better and being lucky a lot too I suppose. Lucky, for having decided on purchasing a White’s metal detector in the first place. And lucky in having the expertise, service and dedication of White’s and my distributor standing behind my equipment. Over the years I’ve run into a few problems with my detectors, but White’s and my distributor made things right. They have earned my business and that of anyone that asks me about metal detectors forever more. An example would be just this week in fact, I began having trouble with my Bullseye II pin pointer. The power button began functioning erratically, sometimes turning the machine on, sometimes not. I finally reasoned with myself that it would be best to get another unit to replace it as detecting without my pin pointer is all but unthinkable anymore. I’ve been known to turn around and go home rather than detect if I found that I’d forgotten to bring my bullseye. Well expecting to shell out some cash for a new Bullseye, I went to my distributor’s office to pick one up. Instead of selling me a new unit, he exchanged my old unit for a brand new one. WOW! I did end up purchasing another digging pouch, but I had planned on doing that anyway. I was delighted and impressed, yet again. Later this week, today actually, I found that my plans to go try out this new Bullseye were put on hold due to rain. Cleaning my equipment and taking stock I decided that it was time to replace my trusty but tired headphones. I drove to my distributor’s office again and purchased a pair of the Royal GT headphones. As the weather was better in the area of my distributor’s office than at home I thought I’d make a short hunt at a park near there. You know, to try out my new headphones, and finally break in the new pin pointer as well.
This was the first time I’d ever been to this park and I was pleasantly surprised to find a sand lot volley ball court at one end of the park. Seeing as I’m anticipating a vacation trip to the beach in a few weeks I thought I’d try my hand, and detector, in the sand. I hadn’t gone more than three or four feet into the sand when I picked up my first target signal. My Prizm IV was indicating something in the quarter range but when I dug down into the sand I found a toy farm implement, a harvester combine. Little did I know at the time but that find would set the tone so to speak of my treasure hunting outing at that particular park. I was about to “harvest” a bounty of booty using my trusty detector with new headphones and pinpointer. The harvester was followed by a few coins, and a few more toys as well. I ended up finding seven different toy cars, military vehicles and a motorcycle spread out in the sand of the volley ball court.
After finishing up in the volley ball court I moved on to the nearest of three wood chipped tot lots in this park. Apparently few if anyone detects in this park because I found coins with nearly every sweep of my detector coil. Of course coins weren’t the only things I found. I found a handful of buttons, snaps and trinkets in and around the woodchips and tot lots, even some silver!
Yes, I said silver. At least one of the three pendants I found is identifiably silver with its stamp of 925 on its reverse side.
It’s always nice to find precious metals, be they coins or jewelry. I didn’t find any silver coins this outing but the pendant was a nice plum all the same. Of course as with any hunt in any park anywhere, there were a plethora of pull tabs to be found. I put quite a few of them in my new digging pouch, along with all the coke rewards bottle caps I spotted during the hunt as well. My wife collects those, so to me they are “brownie points”
Well my hunt in this park away from home was curtailed from further searching as the weather grew decidedly damper with the clouds opening up and the rain began falling. I was about halfway around the baseball field complex searching the grassy areas around the bleachers and the concession stand at the hub of the complex when I decided to head for home. I had lost count of my found coins early on so I was pleased to find out what the final tally was when I got home and emptied out my digging pouch. A bountiful harvest indeed.
You got to love a hobby that pays you to have fun! And it’s all the more enjoyable using reliable equipment and enjoying the support and enthusiasm of the manufacturers and suppliers of that equipment. Yeah. I had a good day!
~HAPPY HUNTING~
Frodov
Call it what you will, “treasure hunting”, “Coin Shooting”, “Dirt Fishing”, “Killing Time” or “Metal Detecting” and perhaps, now, “Harvesting”. Of all the hobbies I’ve ever had in my life none have been so addictive or profitable as this one. While I still consider myself somewhat of a novice as far as metal detecting goes, even after over three years of experience now under my .. uh.. coil, I’d like to think that getting better at it. Getting better and being lucky a lot too I suppose. Lucky, for having decided on purchasing a White’s metal detector in the first place. And lucky in having the expertise, service and dedication of White’s and my distributor standing behind my equipment. Over the years I’ve run into a few problems with my detectors, but White’s and my distributor made things right. They have earned my business and that of anyone that asks me about metal detectors forever more. An example would be just this week in fact, I began having trouble with my Bullseye II pin pointer. The power button began functioning erratically, sometimes turning the machine on, sometimes not. I finally reasoned with myself that it would be best to get another unit to replace it as detecting without my pin pointer is all but unthinkable anymore. I’ve been known to turn around and go home rather than detect if I found that I’d forgotten to bring my bullseye. Well expecting to shell out some cash for a new Bullseye, I went to my distributor’s office to pick one up. Instead of selling me a new unit, he exchanged my old unit for a brand new one. WOW! I did end up purchasing another digging pouch, but I had planned on doing that anyway. I was delighted and impressed, yet again. Later this week, today actually, I found that my plans to go try out this new Bullseye were put on hold due to rain. Cleaning my equipment and taking stock I decided that it was time to replace my trusty but tired headphones. I drove to my distributor’s office again and purchased a pair of the Royal GT headphones. As the weather was better in the area of my distributor’s office than at home I thought I’d make a short hunt at a park near there. You know, to try out my new headphones, and finally break in the new pin pointer as well.
This was the first time I’d ever been to this park and I was pleasantly surprised to find a sand lot volley ball court at one end of the park. Seeing as I’m anticipating a vacation trip to the beach in a few weeks I thought I’d try my hand, and detector, in the sand. I hadn’t gone more than three or four feet into the sand when I picked up my first target signal. My Prizm IV was indicating something in the quarter range but when I dug down into the sand I found a toy farm implement, a harvester combine. Little did I know at the time but that find would set the tone so to speak of my treasure hunting outing at that particular park. I was about to “harvest” a bounty of booty using my trusty detector with new headphones and pinpointer. The harvester was followed by a few coins, and a few more toys as well. I ended up finding seven different toy cars, military vehicles and a motorcycle spread out in the sand of the volley ball court.
After finishing up in the volley ball court I moved on to the nearest of three wood chipped tot lots in this park. Apparently few if anyone detects in this park because I found coins with nearly every sweep of my detector coil. Of course coins weren’t the only things I found. I found a handful of buttons, snaps and trinkets in and around the woodchips and tot lots, even some silver!
Yes, I said silver. At least one of the three pendants I found is identifiably silver with its stamp of 925 on its reverse side.
It’s always nice to find precious metals, be they coins or jewelry. I didn’t find any silver coins this outing but the pendant was a nice plum all the same. Of course as with any hunt in any park anywhere, there were a plethora of pull tabs to be found. I put quite a few of them in my new digging pouch, along with all the coke rewards bottle caps I spotted during the hunt as well. My wife collects those, so to me they are “brownie points”
Well my hunt in this park away from home was curtailed from further searching as the weather grew decidedly damper with the clouds opening up and the rain began falling. I was about halfway around the baseball field complex searching the grassy areas around the bleachers and the concession stand at the hub of the complex when I decided to head for home. I had lost count of my found coins early on so I was pleased to find out what the final tally was when I got home and emptied out my digging pouch. A bountiful harvest indeed.
You got to love a hobby that pays you to have fun! And it’s all the more enjoyable using reliable equipment and enjoying the support and enthusiasm of the manufacturers and suppliers of that equipment. Yeah. I had a good day!
~HAPPY HUNTING~
Frodov
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good silver finds!! MR TUFF
Streak broken...Silver is a way to take the sting out. How much change would you say you dug up?
